TY - JOUR

T1 - Exports, foreign direct investment, and productivity

T2 - evidence from German firm level data

AU - Wagner, Joachim

PY - 2006/5/15

Y1 - 2006/5/15

N2 - This study presents the first empirical test with German establishment level data of a hypothesis derived by Helpman et al. (2004) in a model that explains the decision of heterogeneous firms to serve foreign markets either through exports or foreign direct investment: only the more productive firms choose to serve the foreign markets, and the most productive among this group will further choose to serve these markets via foreign direct investments. Using a non-parametric test for first order stochastic dominance it is shown that, in line with this hypothesis, the productivity distribution of foreign direct investors dominates that of exporters, which in turn dominates that of national market suppliers.

AB - This study presents the first empirical test with German establishment level data of a hypothesis derived by Helpman et al. (2004) in a model that explains the decision of heterogeneous firms to serve foreign markets either through exports or foreign direct investment: only the more productive firms choose to serve the foreign markets, and the most productive among this group will further choose to serve these markets via foreign direct investments. Using a non-parametric test for first order stochastic dominance it is shown that, in line with this hypothesis, the productivity distribution of foreign direct investors dominates that of exporters, which in turn dominates that of national market suppliers.

KW - Economics

KW - Betriebsstatistik

KW - Export

KW - Investition

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UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/a6a91354-9145-36f6-995b-0d4962ef11d0/

U2 - 10.1080/13504850500393667

DO - 10.1080/13504850500393667

M3 - Journal articles

VL - 13

SP - 347

EP - 349

JO - Applied Economics Letters

JF - Applied Economics Letters

SN - 1350-4851

IS - 6

ER -